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    Richard Foltz is a Canadian scholar of American origin. He is a specialist in the history of Iranian civilization—what is sometimes referred to as "Greater...
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  • Foltz, military surgeon of the US Navy during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War Philipp Foltz, German history painter Richard Foltz, Canadian...
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    "almost identicity" to Indo-Iranian traditions. According to the scholar Richard Foltz, despite claims to antiquity, from a scholarly point of view the movement...
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  • who was appointed here through King George II of Abkhazia's efforts. Richard Foltz has suggested that only certain elite Alan families were Christianized...
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    of Congress, page 206 Richard Foltz, A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East, London: Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 33–61. Richard Nelson Frye, "Persien:...
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  • separately; therefore the supplicant’s dilemma does not arise. Others such as Richard Foltz has put forth evidence that Iranians of Pre-Islamic era worshipped all...
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  • Religion in Iran: From Zoroaster to Bahaullah, Bibliotheca Persica, 2000 Richard Foltz, Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, London: Oneworld...
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    Security, 9 (2): 115–140, doi:10.1080/09662830008407454, S2CID 154194469 Richard Foltz, "The Tajiks of Uzbekistan", Central Asian Survey, 15(2), 213-216 (1996)...
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    effort in the history of the world's religions" in the 3rd century BCE. (Richard Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road, Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition, 2010,...
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    Foltz, Richard (1998). "Judaism and the Silk Route". The History Teacher. 32 (1): 9–16. doi:10.2307/494416. ISSN 0018-2745. JSTOR 494416. Foltz 1999...
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    majority of the population in Samarkand and Bukhara today although, as Richard Foltz has noted, their spoken dialects diverge considerably from the standard...
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    some of which include Anahita, Sraosha, Mithra, Rashnu, and Tishtrya. Richard Foltz has put forth evidence that Iranians of Pre-Islamic era worshiped all...
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    are attributed to him) at the beginning of his proselytizing career, Richard Foltz postulates Buddhist influences in Manichaeism: Buddhist influences were...
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    to the Kushan Empire and other Buddhist influences in Manichaeism, Richard Foltz attributes Mani's teaching of reincarnation to Buddhist influence. However...
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    Tajiks as the constituting the historical centres of Tajik civilization" Foltz, Richard. A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East. I.B. Tauris, 2019. p...
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  • number of scholars. Richard Foltz considers Yazdânism, or the “Cult of Angels”, as Izady's “invented religion”, which according to Foltz “owes more to contemporary...
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  • (2012). The Silk Road: A New History. Oxford University Press. p. 136. Richard Foltz, A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East, London: Bloomsbury,...
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    protesters and 30 government security forces. According to the Iranologist Richard Foltz, 64 protesters died at Jaleh Square. According to Emadeddin Baghi, a...
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    of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650–1041, I. B. Tauris, 2011, p. 53. Richard Foltz, Iran in World History, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 56–58. Busse...
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    the Saka, the Dahae and the Massagetae. According to the Iranologist Richard Foltz, the eastern satrapies were practically Bessus' personal domain. Following...
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    Medina. Oxford University Press. pp. 261–300. ISBN 978-0-19-577307-1. Richard Foltz, "Internationalization of Islam", Encarta Historical Essays. Morgan...
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  • estrangement. It is not clear what the family intended to do with his ashes. Richard Foltz dedicated his book A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East to...
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    (which they call 'Nawrôz' in Kurdish) does not make them Zoroastrian" – Richard Foltz (2017). "The 'Original' Kurdish Religion? Kurdish Nationalism and the...
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    mid Sassanid period "Ghazan had been baptized and raised a Christian"Richard Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road, Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition, 2010,...
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    Religion". Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies (3–4). (3) Foltz, Richard (2017-06-01). "The "Original" Kurdish Religion? Kurdish Nationalism...
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    are concentrated in the Sukhandarya, Samarqand and Bukhara regions." Richard Foltz (1996). "The Tajiks of Uzbekistan". Central Asian Survey. 15 (2): 213–216...
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    ISBN 9780674468665 G.R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam, p. 106. Richard Foltz, Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, p. 160. London:...
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    spoken, and where in the past, multi-faceted Iranian cultures existed." Richard Foltz notes that while "A general assumption is often made that the various...
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    of Nizam Al-Mulk. Psychology Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-07-00-71228-1. Richard Foltz, A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East, London: Bloomsbury,...
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    of a pantheon of deities reflecting Iranian and Christian influence. Richard Foltz connects the Ossetian religion to that of the ancient Scythians. The...
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